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appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...

the sinners. We must not make a scar-crow of the Law, Setting it vp to feare the Birds of prey,...

the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...

variety of perspectives on Cleopatra, which serve to inform the audiences comprehension of her as a decadent foreign woman. When ...

say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...

really be proven wrong, and the only thing that Othello has to go on is really the word of his wife who he ultimately disbelieves....

a more accepting attitude of debt also indicates that this is resulting in the use of credit cards and higher than ever before cre...

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

focused on Shakespeares perspectives on innocence and its consequences. As envisioned by Shakespeare according to his stage direc...

from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...

banished to the forests outside of Mantua. In the meantime, Julia decides she cannot be apart from Proteus and disguises herself a...

cistern of my lust, and my desire / all continent impediments would oerbear...better Macbeth/ Than such an one to reign" (lines 62...

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

have been called to his ship. Happily reunited with his daughter, Pericles is exhausted and sleeps. In his sleep Diana instructs ...

will be more familiar with the work than audiences of today. It is said by most critics that Cymbeline is one of William...

soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

fears he shall be poor" (Shakespeare III iii). In this we can see that "The word content is used to represent Othello s current si...

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

again. This time, however, Bassanio urges Antonio to loan it one more time while Bassanio will bring the latter hazard back again...

of Lady Macbeth. Some have termed her cold and calculating, others have said that she was mad, and terribly ambitious. It would ap...

they marry or not, for there have been no grandiose expectations placed upon them to act a certain way. Benedick remarks, "That a...

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

plot progresses, Richard allows things to develop till there is virtual defiance of his royal will. This intolerable situation o...

the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white s...

my cold blood, I am of your humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me" (Much Ado About...